Thanks. Yeah this post was originally “When was the last time you lied?” and I figured I should start with the first lie and work from there.

There’s a lot of negativity around lies, and a few people, like the ones who practice Radical Honest, make telling the truth their life’s work, but most people tell lies, and most of the time they’re by accident.

For a while I thought I never lied, and couldn’t think of any specific times, that was probably my most lie filled period because I was lying to myself.

If we can acknowledge that we all lie every day, then we can start moving forward.

Mike S

The more you think about lying, the harder it is to start pulling apart all the times you told superficial lies to spare someone’s feelings, the times you just smiled and nodded through conversations pretending to be engaged when all you were really thinking about was how dull the event or the people had been.

The more I think about it, the more I realize how much humans really do lie, even in very small ways, to get through social elements of their day. How ironic that lying is so frowned upon by that very society – lying to ourselves indeed!

http://followingtherules.com/ Alex Berman

It’s true and a lot of people don’t see it. Although, I wonder how much it really matters. If everyone is lying to each other and to themselves all the time, would truth even be a better option? Maybe society needs lies to stay together.

On the other hand, having society fall apart because everyone started telling the truth would be incredibly awesome.

Mike S

Sorry about the delayed reply, I’ve only just dug out a bunch of blogs from my Bookmarks!

Yeah, can you imagine the level of devastation complete honesty could have on day to day things? Couples would be fighting, office politics would be shifted and skewed, who knows the reaches of the effect it’d have! Months later, have we learned to function around such total honesty, or has it caused us to crumble to pieces?

http://followingtherules.com/ Alex Berman

Then someone will figure out lying again and use it to make up crazy stories and become a celebrity. Hold on, wasn’t there a Ricky Gervais movie about this?